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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Scale Models => Topic started by: Airacobra on October 02, 2012, 11:37:41 AM
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I noticed some interest in 1/2 A scale and I was wondering if most who are participating in the event are using plans or doing scratch builds from 3 views. If you are using plans, where do you all go to get the plans? Thanks, Keith
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Hi, Keith!
I have seen many 1/2A Scale models in the magazines over the past 40 plus years. It was more prevalent in the '50s to early '60s it seems. Which planes in which magazine? Sorry, haven't a clue............
But it does appear a few guys are building fro three views especially the "Profile Scale" guys.
BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM
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I agree Bill, I will have to start digging out some of those Model Airplane News magazines. The 1/2 A scale seems to appeal to me for some reason, probably due to the simplicity of it. I will start digging through some old plans as well to see what I can find.
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HI Keith,
I know that I have a set of plans and the magazine for the XP-55 Ascender profile pusher for 1/2A. Where it is is a mystery that might take a couple days to find. LL~
Pat King has two 1/24th scale WW I fighters (Sopwith Camel and Fokker DR-1) for 1/2A profile scale. Very nice laser cut kits.
Bill
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Pat King also has plans for the Douglas A-26 seen here, and the F-82 Twin Mustang. Contact Pat at patdk(at)aol(dot)com.
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I have the Ascender plans Bill, thats what I am leanibng towards right now. I also found plans for a C-47 that takes 2 049's.
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Keith
I look for model designs that interest me then decide how to build it. For example the Ansaldo SVA-5.
I found a construction article for one in RC Modeler Feb. 1971. The article was for a 60 size engine with a 45 inch top wing. The drawing of the top wing in the magazine measured 9 1/4 inch. Double that and it gives a 18 1/2 inch WS model. Just right for a Cox .049 engine. Why re-engineer a model, just re-size it.
Clancy
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HI Keith,
I realized that I also have (somewhere!) plans for a .049 powered PBY Catalina, full fuselage.
Bill
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Pat King also has plans for the Douglas A-26 seen here, and the F-82 Twin Mustang. Contact Pat at patdk(at)aol(dot)com.
That's the Nimrod on the cover of the Squardon book on the A-26. I was looking at building, but will have to find something else now that the Nimrod is taken.
The good thing about 1/2A Scale is you don't need model plans. Just find a three-view and somne picture and build something original.
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I have 2 subjects that I blew 3 views up of. I just need some time as I want to crank out a quick model for test flights, not for sure I have enough time this year, but I think I should get things rolling.
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The twin-engine Fokker T.V (T-5) was drawn-up from 3-views in an obscure aviation magazine in 1976. The tri-motor Stinson 'U' was drawn-up from Wylam 3-views in 1989. Easy to do. Just a ruler, some pencils and a large sheet of paper. The Fokker was mainly 1/4" sheet (fuselage, wing & nacelles) with 1/8" sheet tail group. Nacelles were faced with 1/32" ply. Cox TD power. The Stinson spanned 50", had a 1/2" balsa fuselage (WAY too heavy), built-up tail surfaces, sliced-rib wing construction, and three Cox reed-valve .049s. Ideas for that one were sketched-out aboard a TWA L-1011 enroute from LAX to Boston. Both models were featured as construction articles in the now-defunct 'Model Builder' magazine.
You can do this! Alternately, see the Cleveland Models web site and use their plans as a basis for your own drawings.